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Date:
8/22/2022 11:34:03 AM
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RE: I'm like 3 years late on this but The Boys is
I've thought about watching it and may yet do so. The problem, for me, is that it's an "original content series," which is to say a soap opera funded by a media company and my subscription payments.
My experience with these has been almost uniformly bad. There are exceptions, e.g., The Sopranos, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, Black Sails, Game of Thrones, etc. But for every one of these, there are dozens of bottle rockets that gain a little altitude, start on a predictably bad flight path, and fizzle. They have a first good episode or two, and then they try to stretch what should not be stretched because they don't know quite what to do. I used to think they fired the good writers and hired cheaper ones, but now I think that they hire good writers to take the creators' seminal ideas and shape them into a couple of compelling episodes. After that, the creators step in and try to write/direct their own material, and they're not professional enough to carry it off.
I don't know what happened to Tin Star, an Amazon thing with Tim Roth. It began pretty well, but very quickly it became a flaccid, meandering waste of time, stuck in a mire of serial tropes and unwarranted character arcs. Pretty much everything I watch now follows the same pattern. (1) Interesting introduction, (2) passable second episode, (3) plot comes to a halt, spreading out in 88 directions so that various characters can fail at life for no justifiable reason.
I haven't seen it, but I can assure you that The Boys will do this. If it doesn't, I would be very surprised.
